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Listen Lewis's only surviving Broadcast Talk online!

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Listen Lewis's only surviving Broadcast Talk online!

Postby Arend Smilde » January 5th, 2006, 2:56 pm

Perhaps I'd better post this as a new topic rather than putting it (as I did yesterday) at the end of an older string.

It might be old news really, but it was great news for me -- I never knew until today that the only one of Lewis's wartime BROADCAST TALKS that has been preserved can now be listened online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions ... udio.shtml
BBC's explanation says that it is the last episode, broadcast on 21 March 1944. There is a difference here with the survey in Justin Phillips's book C. S. Lewis at the BBC (2002), which says that the last instalment was given on 4 April. But what is more interesting is that there is much difference between the spoken text and the printed text published the same year as Beyond Personality. Lewis starts with the second paragraph of chapter 3 ("Time and beyond time"), then after two pages goes on with a passage I haven't identified yet in the book, and finally reads portions from the beginning and the end of the last chapter ("The New Men").
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Postby russcannon » January 13th, 2006, 12:55 pm

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Postby john » January 13th, 2006, 2:22 pm

Then what you need is .

edit: Hm...seems I've already said this here. ;)
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Postby russcannon » January 13th, 2006, 4:10 pm

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Postby Tony » January 13th, 2006, 5:25 pm

WOW! Thank you!

I really wish they had some more of these preserved.. I wonder if anyone has all of his broadcast talks recorded. I'd like to invest in a copy or two. :)
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